Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island
Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island is a memorial in Scotland, United Kingdom. Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island is situated nearby to the peak Aird Hill, as well as near the forest Graycraig Wood.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: monument in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Great Cumbrae Island, Tomont End Monument”, “HMS Shearwater Memorial”, and “Tomont End Monument”
- Inscription: “In memory of Charles Cayley aged 17 and William Jewell aged 19, Midshipmen of HMS Shearwater. Two promising young officers drowned by the upsetting of their boat near this place 17th May 1844. This monument is erected in token of their worth by Captain R”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Largs railway station and Clark Memorial Church.
Largs railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY 4.0.
Largs railway station is a railway station in the town of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is owned by Network Rail. It is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 43 miles south west of Glasgow Central. Largs railway station is situated 1¼ miles east of Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island.
Clark Memorial Church
Church
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Clark Memorial Church is an active place of worship for the Church of Scotland in Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It was designed by William Kerr in 1890–1892, and is a category A listed building, having been listed in 1971. Clark Memorial Church is situated 1¼ miles east of Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island.
Brisbane Aisle
Historic site
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
The Brisbane Aisle is a small 17th century free-standing burial vault, built for the Shaws of Kelsoland and situated in the grounds of the 'Largs Old Kirk', Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. Brisbane Aisle is situated 1¼ miles east of Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Largs and Millport.
Largs
Largs is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of Ayrshire, with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of Largs in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.
Millport
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of Ayrshire, with Millport as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.
Fairlie
Village
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Fairlie is a village in North Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. Fairlie is situated 3½ miles southeast of Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island.
Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island
- Categories: monument and historic site
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.79264° or 55° 47′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.9018° or 4° 54′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C7QQ3VX+37OpenStreetMap ID
node 28841588OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q17829392
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